Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license

by cpburns2009 on 5/1/2025, 1:13:44 PM with 4 comments

  • by Vinz_ on 5/1/2025, 2:21:10 PM

    > This achieved our goal—AWS and Google now maintain their own fork

    So the goal was to no longer have any contributions from hyperscalers to Redis? I don’t understand this, when the first paragraph complains that they weren’t contributing enough. Redis has burned a lot of goodwill in the open source community, and yet another license change doesn’t inspire much confidence in the future either…

  • by gus_massa on 5/2/2025, 3:28:42 AM

    Big related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859446

  • by Tomte on 5/1/2025, 1:30:24 PM

    2018: "Redis will remain BSD licensed"

    2024: "dual RSALv2 and SSPLv1 license"

    2025: "available under the AGPLv3 open source license"

    Yes, that's great and all, but next month you're probably going to write a bespoke license in iambic pentameter or so.